It is our goal to always be transparent about our software. Like all other software, Browser Bro is not perfect and has a set of limitations and issues. Especially version 1. If we fixed everything, Browser Bro would never ship.
The web is dynamic and websites can be built in so many different ways that some not every site works as intended in every browser.
We are sorry if some of these limitations effect your ability to use Browser Bro in the way that you would like. Overtime some of these limitations will be fixed, but some are beyond our control. Please see our public roadmap to see what features and bug-fixes are in our pipeline.
Please report any bugs, because we will spend the time to fix it, and do our best to create a workaround.
Known Issues & Limitations
On Windows, Google Authentication on some websites is unable to complete and ...
On Windows, Google Authentication on some websites is unable to complete, and causes an exit command to be sent to Browser Bro. (this will be resolved as our platform moves to the Edge framework.)
Workaround: Most sites support signing in with an email/username and password, which should get you beyond this issue.
H.264 Codec unavailable on Windows (to be resolved in future update)
This is a licensing issue as H264 is proprietary software and must be licensed. Our version of CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework) This, however will be resolved when our platform, Livecode, move the windows browser to the operating system’s built in webview component. That should resolve this problem.
This one is a pain because youtube live uses this codec. Non-live youtube works well, as far as viewing videos.
On Mac OS, AV1, VP 9, VP 8 codecs are not available. Any site using them will not play video. (OS dependent)
This is not a bug we can fix, unless Mac OS begins to ship with this codec in its webview api.
We are investigating ways in which we can overcome these codec issues using a little … magic …. with VLC.
Popups
This is one is pretty annoying and we will solve this as quickly as possible. We have not yet figured out how to handle window popups of webpages. Luckily the vast majority of sites do not use them, and those that do, maybe we want to not see them.
But it is among the reasons why a google sign that happens in a popup does not work in Browser Bro.
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